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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Netroots and Endorsements

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 21 2007, 2:37 PM ET Comment

This issue was getting discussed in comments over here the other day, and now Chris Bowers has an insightful post on the changeover from the 2003-04 primary season when activist bloggers were all endorsing candidates and the 2007-08 season where neutrality rules the day.

I would add, though, that the issue differentiation between Howard Dean on the one hand, and Lieberman/Kerry/Edwards/Gephardt on the other over Iraq was an unusual situation that has no real parallel in the current primary. The candidates are all presenting themselves as wanting to end the war in Iraq and achieve universal health insurance and curb global warming, and essentially arguing over who is best-equipped to instantiate a fundamentally common vision for the country.

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